Just got the Klingerman warning from Mr. S’s friend’s wife. sigh I was feeling kind, so I sent the following reply:
A few minutes later she sent me the “forward this 9 times and get a $50 Cracker Barrel gift certificate” hoax. double sigh Believe it or not, I was still in a charitable mood, so I replied thusly:
Then she sent me the following response:
triple sigh Another one doesn’t get the point. I sent my third and final response:
Yes, apparently I do enjoy beating my head against a wall. I tried to fight ignorance today, folks, I really did. But I’m afraid it’s a losing battle.
Well, at least I’ve gotten to the point that friends will e-mail me with questions about possible hoaxes . . . before they go and e-mail them out to everyone on their address list. I’d rather take the time to give them the snopes web page cite than have them e-mail hoaxes. I know where you’re coming from, Scarlett67.
It’s the Kobiyashi Maru of etiquette questions. If you ignore it you just let the spamming get worse and if you say anything, even in the most polite of terms, the spammer ends up acting like a whipped puppy.
A friend of mine - someone I thought I’d trained out of the stupid fucking habit of forwarding every fucking piece of fucking shit that wanders past her fucking inbox - sent me that Q33NY or whatever the fuck it was.
I emailed her back, saying that none of the planes had that flight number, US plane regs start with N, the Snopes link (like I haven’t sent it to her thirty-fucking-seven times before), and a polite request to please, Holy Mary mother of God, pleeeeeeaaaaase check this shit before she sends it out.
She emailed me back basically saying I’m a bitch for telling her. After all, [whine mode] “I was only forwarding it on. It’s not like I wrote it or anything.” [/whine mode]
:mad:
I’m getting my flamethrower out and I’m going to pay her a visit. To borrow a line from Snopes, the Inboxer Rebellion has begun.